Concrete sector raises HOS issues in House hearing

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new hours of service rules, which require truckers to take a 30-minute rest every eight hours and impose a 34-hour restart for truckers, goes into effect in less than two weeks. With the impending deadline fresh in their minds, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing Tuesday to get to the heart of the changes, what they will mean to trucking companies, and how they will affect the flow of goods throughout the United States. Adaptability, in general, seemed to be the overarching concern of those opposing the HOS changes, and one industry leading the charge against the new rules is the readymix concrete sector. C...